>> sometimes. >> i'm chris hansen with "dateline" nbc. and we're doing a story on adults who try to pick up young boys and girls online for sex. if there's anything else you want to tell us about why you are here and what have you been doing, we would like to hear it. if not, you are clearly free to walk out the door you just came in. just outside the long beach police are getting into position. >> hands up in the air. >> he is charged with an attempted lewd act upon a child. under california law, attempting to have sex with someone under the age of 14 is a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. or warrecker pleaded no contest. he's the first in a long line of men who will be arrested by the long beach police department over the next three days. >> who's all here? >> just me. >> later in our program you'll see a first for us. someone who showed up at one of our earlier investigations, unbelievably, shows up for another visit. >> you know, you look familiar to me. >> oops. two of the most important are energy security and econom

i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc." we're doing a story on adults who try to meet kids online for sex. if there's anything else you'd like to say to me, we'd like to hear it. >> that's it. >> his reaction? we expected surprise. instead, we get curiosity. >> can you notify me, tell me if it will be on or not? >> if you give me a call. >> okay. can i get your card? >> i don't have a card with me but i'll write down the number. >> outside, the long beach police are ready to give him another number, a case number. >> put your hands up, get on your knees. get on your knees. >> he is charged with one count of an attempted lewd act on a child. what has the police more concerned is the fact that he has a legally registered gun in the trunk of his car. along with a clip loaded with bullets. >> that's not good. >> these guys are living in a fantasy world. they have the fantasy of having sex with a child. and you don't know how far they're going to take that fantasy. they may have a fantasy of going out in a blaze of glory. they m

. >> i'm chris hansen. you saw the earlier episode? >> yes, i did. it's not that i'm -- >> let me get this straight, you saw our earlier story? >> right. >> you drove by this house and saw police out front? >> yeah. >> yet walked in here, anyways? >> bored, like i told you. >> you got to want something to risk coming in here after seeing police out front. >> i just thought she might have been -- i don't know, maybe it's -- honestly i don't know. so i guess i'm going to walk outside and get arrested, i suppose. it's not that i'm a bad guy. and i don't think i would -- i just -- do we have to have the cameras on me? >> well, we do have to. >> fine. >> you're free to leave. >> i'm going to leave that there. >> you can take, too. >> i don't need it. sorry, i didn't mean to bump into you. >> some do know what's going to happen next. in fact, it's interesting because sometimes we see guys stay and chat figuring, you know, i might as well hang out here for a little bit because i know what's going happen once i leave. >> oh, man, i never done this before. i

chris hansen with "dateline nbc."'m doing a story on auto theft. can you tell me what happened here tonight? >> nothing. just messed up. >> i'm having a hard time understanding you. what you're going to do once you grab the car. pick up your girlfriend? go for a ride? >> nothing. >> go to dairy queen. what? >> nothing like that. >> flores pleaded guilty to grand larceny auto. another night, another fake fight. attracting another suspect. the man drives off having no idea the cops are tracking him. he parks the car, gets out. >> metro police. stop right there! >> and runs. how often does this happen when somebody tries to run? >> not often. >> the cops surround the area. >> he's in here somewhere. get the air unit. here comes the helicopter. >> any rovers? >> here come the dogs. >> so whatever it takes? >> whatever it takes. >> the police give chase for an intense 15 minutes. a chopper up in the air. >> got him. >> we got him? >> in custody. >> this is the suspect right here missing between this street and the next str

i'm chris hansen. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. >>> they have a special talent, teasing secrets from the dead. through autopsies and investigations, louisville, kentucky, medical examiner dr. tracy corey and her team decipher some mysterious deaths. with rare access -- >> it is fractured. >> we show how coroners, medical examiners and death investigators -- >> there is a disk that normally goes in there. >> bring the truth to light. they do it by letting the dead do the talking. >> the only way the victim can speak at that point is through the autopsy examination. that's really the last chance the victim has to speak. >>> february, it's midday and cold. a hunter and his dog are tracking game on land southwest of louisville. suddenly in the field a scene from a horry movie. >> suddenly i stumbled upon a skull. i didn't want to believe that, it freaked me out. >> the skeleton is scattered throughout the abandoned mine. bones are difficult to find. half hidden. for police it's like a g

." >> thanks for joining us, i'm chris hansen. the woman at the center of our story is really two people. one a radiant mother with a winning approach to life. the other a woman with secrets she shared with very few. but when she disappeared the secrets tumbled out. now if only they could shed some light on her fate. here's keith morrison. >> on the brow of a hill on one of america's quintessential western towns is a fine big house, the setting and perhaps in some way the reason for the story you're about to hear. the secret that lay behind it. if not for its wide sweeping driveway, its swimming pool, its glorious views across the valley, to the river, to the town, to the mountains beyond, its hefty monthly payment, would any of this have happened? >> the house with paige, the kids were running and screaming sometimes, people were coming and going. >> paige is the woman who lived here with the three children. these are her parents, frank and susie birgfeld. >> that's the life paige wanted to be a mom and have her kids around her.

meanwhile, you know him from the show "to catch a predator" but chris hansen is in trouble himself againeportedly been caught cheating on his wife for a second time. he's apparently involved with a las vegas stripper who has been -- he's been seeing for about six months now. the 51-year-old hansen has also been linked with tv news reporter kristen cadell. >> ok. meanwhile, stolen iphone? there's an app for that. guy in boulder, colorado, used two different apps toatch the crook that swiped his cell phone and wallet out of the locker. he activated a speal gps tracking app that showed his iphone was at the public library. after he got to the library, he used a second app to figure out who exactedly was the culprit. >> i set the alarm off on the phone and it was in the guy's pocket. and that's what my friend heard and that's when they surrounded him. >> geez! i need to use that. >> police arrested a homeless guy and got the fella's phone back and wallet as well. >> brian needed that app. >> brian needed that. i needed that. we both needed that a few months ago, huh? >> now you know how to d

i'm chris hansen. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. >>> when the plane first banked over jonestown, it looked like a quilt, and we didn't know what we were seeing until someone in the cockpit said, "those are bodies." >> die with a degree of dignity, lay down your life with dignity. don't lay down with fears and agony. >> you could actually smell the death in the airplane. the side vent window was open. we could actually smell it. >> don't lay down with tears an agony. it's nothing to death, just stepping over into another plane. >> like strange fallen fruit rotting in the tropical sun, more than 900 americans, men, women, and children in a group called people's temple lay dead in a city they built deep in the jungle of guyana. they had come to create a utopian community called jonestown until they drank the proverbial kool-aid. >> we didn't commit suicide. committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the inhumane conditions of the world. >> they took cyanide-laced fruit punch f